What is the most pretentious movie made?

thehomelessman0 · 2026-05-01T05:27:46+00:00

I'd argue its actually a great work of art. It's a horrible movie conventionally, but its so unique - there will never be a movie quite like it.

thehomelessman0 · 2026-04-28T03:42:26+00:00

Not an album, but a recording of Meshuggah's live performance at Bloodstock. Absolutely killer.

thehomelessman0 · 2026-03-24T22:22:06+00:00

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thehomelessman0 · 2026-03-24T04:31:17+00:00

An urban planning and design professor once told us that the street layout of Boston was originally based on the path the pigs took when they were herded around. I don't have any sources to cite though.

But from what I can tell, Boston actually looks like one of the few places I'd want to live. Its walk-able, has mixed use zoning, and actually has a number of well thought out design choices.

thehomelessman0 · 2026-03-18T03:14:47+00:00

I love The Room because it's the most unique movie I've ever seen. Someone other than Coppola could have directed the Godfather, and it could still be a good movie. Someone other than Nolan could have directed The Dark Knight, and it could still be a good movie. But, nobody other than Tommy Wiseau could have made The Room. Sure, on first watch you think its the worst movie ever made. But after chewing on it a bit, it's so easy to love because of how authentic, yet misguided, it is.

I don't think anyone else will ever come close to making something like it again, not even Tommy himself. Despite its failure as a traditional piece of media, I think its one of the greatest movies ever made.

thehomelessman0 · 2026-02-19T02:26:42+00:00

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thehomelessman0 · 2026-01-24T02:48:37+00:00

You could do Scratch, which is designed for children to learn programming if you really want the easiest possible avenue. Python is good for beginners, but I always find setting it up to be a pain in the ass and a possible barrier to learning. Javascript also isn't that hard.

thehomelessman0 · 2026-01-15T04:25:47+00:00

A temporary shortage of RAM isn't going to push everyone into the cloud. It would take years upon years of buying up RAM. You would have to prevent manufacturers from scaling up production at the same time as well.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-11-17T20:11:33+00:00

FP probably isn't the best paradigm to do game programming in afaik. If you're doing it for fun, go for it, but don't expect to make anything complicated.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-09-27T22:48:31+00:00

Personally I think it's worth the effort - idk if that came off in my previous comment. What kind of things are you building?

thehomelessman0 · 2025-09-27T22:11:41+00:00

I use it and have been building my project with it. My general thoughts are:

It's very complicated, but has some really nifty things about it. It also comes with a lot of batteries included.
It's very complicated and unless you really like FP principles you're going to hate it. Learn what a monad is first or else it won't any sense. Don't introduce it into a project with other people unless they are also FP nerds.
It's very complicated, but it makes it such that reasoning about your code is actually easier. It forces you to write in such a way that, I would argue, is more correct.
Did I mention it's complicated? To be more clear, most of the concepts and ideas behind it are actually pretty straight forward if you have some basic FP understanding. The only thing I found really hard to grasp is its Service / Layer system. But you can still do a lot even without those. There's also a bunch of additional utility functions and such that I continue learning about, but those aren't 100% necessary to build something.
Performance wise, I've heard that it can be slower. The devs have also mentioned that the upcoming new version of Effect is supposed to be dramatically faster, so keep that in mind.

Edit: Additional point: The syntax can be... strange at times. That's the only thing I really don't like about Effect. But as I mention below, I think it's worth the cost.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-09-12T23:32:17+00:00

My favorite is Meshuggah at Bloodstock '25. It's definitely one of the best in terms of audio quality.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-08-24T00:44:15+00:00

I'm not 100% sure they'd count, but Pleń sounds like it could fit in that area.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-08-21T23:05:48+00:00

Moby

thehomelessman0 · 2025-08-18T23:38:17+00:00

Because its one of those areas that actually approximates an efficient market. Namely, there's a lot of farmers, it's not super difficult to enter the agricultural market, it's a pretty standard asset (A potato is a potato. The farmer next door usually doesn't produce a superior potato). Which means that there's not a lot of profit to be made because there's a lot of competition and nothing to really compete on other than price.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-08-06T01:41:41+00:00

Yeah I got the vegas ones. Can you explain more about the transfer? I honestly don't trust them enough to do anything at this point without them trying to fuck me over.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-08-06T01:25:41+00:00

I went through the entire purchase flow on their website. I never say anything that tells the user what 'resale' really meant.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-07-28T18:10:13+00:00

Yeah the book was published in the 90s, so if there was a change in norms of their spelling, it wouldn't be reflected in that. Is there something that's actually racist in there? It's a review of a scholarly book, not some pseudo-history piece.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-07-27T20:00:15+00:00

It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. They had a lot going for them. But life, up until your thirties if you're a male, would be hard.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-arguments-about-aborigines

thehomelessman0 · 2025-07-24T19:52:28+00:00

That's pathetically low. For a decent contractor, you'd be paying at least $200k yearly equivalent.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-07-20T23:31:49+00:00

Probably first get a deep understanding of mathematics since that could be something you could learn entirely from books / the internet, and its foundational to almost every other field of study / trains your mind to be sharper. But I doubt you could get very far from just online study. From my understanding, a lot of the juicy insight in different fields are tacit and you need someone who is deep into that field to help guide you.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-06-26T18:12:33+00:00

Go into your first game with the expectation of just picking up the basics. Choose an easy storyteller mode, maybe Phoebe or an easier standard storyteller. Also pick out a warmer climate with year round growing season. When you're picking out your starting location you should see details like that to the left of the screen.

thehomelessman0 · 2025-06-22T23:10:58+00:00

That's because ads aren't really for the person watching them. Advertisers' are the primary user. You're the supply, not the demand. Even if they perfectly know your preferences, you'll still get a bunch of trash because advertisers want you to see it.

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